Silk Mezzotint, Alternative Intaglio Printmaking

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Silk Mezzotint (also referred to as Silk Aquatint) is an alternative intaglio printing technique that reproduces acrylic paint marks painted on a plate laminated with silkscreen mesh fabric. The final print has a distinctive quality that stands out from other printing processes due to the expressive facture of the paint medium (transparencies, layering, textures, brush marks, drippings,…). The painted image is produced as an additive process (comparable to the collagraph technique) and yields a beautiful range of tonalities similar to the traditional mezzotint. Silk mezzotints provide artists the opportunity to work in large formats with little expense in plate cost and can produce multiple copies from a single plate. The use of water miscible inks in printing reduces the toxicity of the process and allows for the immediate change of colors in the print.